Calling the singularity 'already started, unevenly distributed' is a bad 1/x metaphor
wordgrammer · x · 2026-09-16
wordgrammer pokes at the popular line "The Singularity has already started; it's just unevenly distributed" (riffing on Gibson), arguing it's a bad way to describe the limit case of 1/x as x→0 — a singularity is an asymptotic limit, not something that can be said to have already begun.
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